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Swiss Free Killer of Nazi

David Frankfurter, Swiss medical student who was sentenced in 1936 to eighteen years' hard labor for the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff, head of the Nazi party in Switzerland, has been released, the Swiss radio said yesterday, according to The United Press.

May 18, 1945

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